Modality And Meaning

Author : W.G. Lycan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401109369

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Modality and Meaning by W.G. Lycan Pdf

Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. `Worlds' themselves are understood as structured sets of properties; this `Ersatzist' view is defended against its most vigorous competitors, Meinongianism and David Lewis' theory of existent concrete worlds. Related issues of essentialism and linguistic reference are explored. Part II takes up the question of lexical meaning in the context of possible-world semantics. There are skeptical analyses of analyticity and the notion of a logical constant; and an `infinite polysemy' thesis is defended. The book will be of particular interest to metaphysicians, possible-world semanticists, philosophers of language, and linguists concerned with lexical semantics.

Author : Casimir Lewy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Meaning (Philosophy)
ISBN : OCLC:471533437

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Meaning and modality by Casimir Lewy Pdf

Author : Raphael Salkie,Pierre Busuttil,Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110196344

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Modality in English by Raphael Salkie,Pierre Busuttil,Johan van der Auwera Pdf

Main description: This volume presents strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of a range of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions in specific uses. It also approaches some of the classic issues in the field of modality from new perspectives, notably that of the 'Theory of Enunciative Operations' developed by the French linguist Antoine Culioli and his colleagues.

Author : Richard M. Martin
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0873957229

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Mind, Modality, Meaning, and Method by Richard M. Martin Pdf

Author : Werner Abraham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107021228

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Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics by Werner Abraham Pdf

An innovative survey that covers the linguistic questions of modality and mood, offering a new model for the phenomenon.

Author : Beke Hansen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004381520

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Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics by Beke Hansen Pdf

In Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, Beke Hansen provides an in-depth analysis of variation and change in the expression of modality in second-language varieties of English by adopting an integrated sociolinguistic and corpus-based approach.

Author : Michael Hegarty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107085763

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Modality and Propositional Attitudes by Michael Hegarty Pdf

The semantics for modal interpretation yields two types of belief ascriptions, elucidating various semantic phenomena and fluent aphasia.

Author : Jacqueline Guéron,Jacqueline Lecarme
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402083549

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Time and Modality by Jacqueline Guéron,Jacqueline Lecarme Pdf

Here is a unique work of reference. Not only does it unite studies which explore the syntax and semantics of tense or modality, but it is the first book of its kind to embrace the interaction of tense and modality within a coherent generative model.

Author : Werner Abraham,Elisabeth Leiss
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443842914

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Covert Patterns of Modality by Werner Abraham,Elisabeth Leiss Pdf

This typological overview compares the degree to which different languages have means to give expression to modality (possibility, necessity) without lexical and direct inflectional means. The criterial patterns derive from a variety of languages such as German, English, Chinese, French, Scandinavian, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Polish, and Gothic as well as Old High German. They encompass mainly the auxiliaries HAVE and BE, together with either an infinitival embedding of a full verb linked by the infinitival preposition TO, or other aspectual means. It is demonstrated that what appears as typical covert modal expressions in the Germanic languages, and the Indo-European ones in a wider sense, cannot be seen as a recurrent pattern in non-Indo-European languages. Yet, there are recurrent and plausible forms that allow for generalizations.

Author : William Frawley
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197570

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The Expression of Modality by William Frawley Pdf

This book covers the essentials of modality and offers both foundational ideas and cutting edge advances. The book consists of what are essentially tutorials on modality and modal notions, covering definitions of modality, morphosyntactic form, conceptual and logical semantics, historical development, and acquisition. There are also specific chapters on modality in Zapotec and American Sign Language, which show the range of forms that modal notions can take. To assist its tutorial function, the book closes with a comprehensive conceptual outline of all the chapters. Key features: new series textbook covers the essentials of modality

Author : Joseph Melia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317489689

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Modality by Joseph Melia Pdf

This introduction to modality places the emphasis on the metaphysics of modality rather than on the formal semetics of quantified modal logic. The text begins by introducing students to the "de re/de dicto" distinction, conventionalist and conceptualist theories of modality and some of the key problems in modality, particularly Quine's criticisms. It then moves on to explain how possible worlds provide a solution to many of the problems in modality and how possible worlds themselves have been used to analyse notions outside modality such as properties and propositions. Possible worlds introduce problems of their own and the book argues that to make progress with these problems a theory of possible worlds is required. The pros and cons of various theories of possible worlds are then examined in turn, including those of Lewis, Kripke, Adams, Stalnaker and Plantinga.

Author : Jan Nuyts,Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191646348

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The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood by Jan Nuyts,Johan van der Auwera Pdf

This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examine the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Following an opening section that provides an introduction and historical background to the topic, the volume is divided into five parts. Parts 1 and 2 present the basic linguistic facts about the systems of modality and mood in the languages of the world, covering the semantics and the expression of different subtypes of modality and mood respectively. The authors also examine the interaction of modality and mood, mutually and with other semantic categories such as aspect, time, negation, and evidentiality. In Part 3, authors discuss the features of the modality and mood systems in five typologically different language groups, while chapters in Part 4 deal with wider perspectives on modality and mood: diachrony, areality, first language acquisition, and sign language. Finally, Part 5 looks at how modality and mood are handled in different theoretical approaches: formal syntax, functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics and construction grammar, and formal semantics.

Author : Sònia Roca-Royes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009008709

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Modality by Sònia Roca-Royes Pdf

Modality is a vast phenomenon. In fact, it is arguably a plurality of phenomena. Within it, one type of modality warrants distinctive interest in philosophy and, in particular, in metaphysics. In view of this, this Element has a first part devoted to modality as a general phenomenon, where different types of modalities are distinguished, and where the question of unification is raised. Following this, the second part is focused on metaphysical modality: the type of modality that is of distinctive interest in metaphysics, and thus for the series of this Element. In this second part, the overarching question is about the source of metaphysical modality, and the discussion here informs back, and is informed by, the question of unification from the first part. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Mircea Dumitru
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192598288

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Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality by Mircea Dumitru Pdf

This book is the first edited collection of papers on the work of one of the most seminal and profound contemporary philosophers. Over the last five decades, Kit Fine has made thought-provoking and innovative contributions to several areas of systematic philosophy, including philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mathematics, as well as to a number of topics in philosophical logic. These contributions have helped reshape the agendas of those fields and have given fresh impetus to a number of perennial debates. Fine's work is distinguished by its technical sophistication, philosophical breadth, and independence from current orthodoxy. A blend of sound common-sense combined with a virtuosity in argumentation and constructive thinking is part and parcel of Kit Fine's lasting contributions to current trends in analytic philosophy. Researchers and students in philosophy, logic, linguistics, and cognitive science will benefit alike from these critical contributions to Fine's novel theories on meaning and representation, arbitrary objects, essence, ontological realism, and the metaphysics of modality, and will come away with a better understanding of the issues within contemporary analytic philosophy with which they deal.

Author : Paul Portner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199292424

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Modality by Paul Portner Pdf

This comprehensive review and critical synthesis of research on modality focuses on formal theories within linguistics and related aspects of philosophical logic. It will be welcomed by students of linguistics at graduate level and above, as well as by researchers in philosophy, computational science, and related fields.